A nerd confessional
January 14, 2016 | 20:57 | Written by: snake911
I’ve been priming myself up to see the latest Star Wars movie by watching episodes one through six on DVD. Surprisingly I’ve been able to avoid any spoilers, seeing that basically every human on the earth has already seen it based its record blowing box office sells.
To be honest, I haven’t seen any of the movies with the exception of Episodes IV and I until recently. I originally saw episode IV for the first time back in 1997 when they re-released the original trilogy in theaters, supposing getting folks ready for the prequels that were scheduled to debut for the years to follow. Then I saw episode I in 1999 when it first debuted, and that was it!
It wasn’t that I hated them -- I actually liked the films; but I don’t know. I guess they were neat and all, but nothing beyond that. Then flash forward to a few years back when I got the DVDs and watched the originals, but basically forgot all that had happened story-wise since then (oops). Then a few days ago I decided it was finally time to watch them all. So for this round I started with the prequels first by watching episodes 1 – 3 and then the originals with 4 – 6.
So here’s my ranking of the movies. I know this is going to be very controversial to some, but I don’t care. If you have a complaint, take it to Lucas himself...or Disney. Ranking is from best to worst.
- Episode 1
- Episode 6
- Episode 3
- Episode 4
- Episode 5
- Episode 2
Now before you drop that monocle into your martini glass, please note that I never saw the full og set in its entirety until not too long ago, so I never experienced it the way you did. But if it makes you feel any better, I thought episode 2 was the worst. Nothing really happened and the CG hadn’t aged very well. There was only one part in that story that was worth of interest, but everything else seemed to be just a bridge for Episode 3.
I’d like to discuss what I liked and hated in details, but for people who haven’t seen the movies, I’ll save you from any spoilers (plus it’s late and I’m tired (and lazy)). But you can take my ranking with a grain of salt as I never cared for any of the games except for Rebel Assault II and the Sega’s 1993 Star Wars Arcade. The only other Star Wars game that’s ever caught my attention was Star Wars 1313, but they axed that one while it was in development, so it shows that the Force is weak with me.
Even though I’ve been hearing mixed opinions about the latest film, I’ll keep my expectations in check and hopefully enjoy it the same way I did for the other films.
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